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title = "Extracting Fine-Grained Economic Events from Business News",
author = "Jacobs, Gilles and
Hoste, Veronique",
editor = "El-Haj, Dr Mahmoud and
Athanasakou, Dr Vasiliki and
Ferradans, Dr Sira and
Salzedo, Dr Catherine and
Elhag, Dr Ans and
Bouamor, Dr Houda and
Litvak, Dr Marina and
Rayson, Dr Paul and
Giannakopoulos, Dr George and
Pittaras, Nikiforos",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
publisher = "COLING",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.fnp-1.36",
pages = "235--245",
abstract = "Based on a recently developed fine-grained event extraction dataset for the economic domain, we present in a pilot study for supervised economic event extraction. We investigate how a state-of-the-art model for event extraction performs on the trigger and argument identification and classification. While F1-scores of above 50{\%} are obtained on the task of trigger identification, we observe a large gap in performance compared to results on the benchmark ACE05 dataset. We show that single-token triggers do not provide sufficient discriminative information for a fine-grained event detection setup in a closed domain such as economics, since many classes have a large degree of lexico-semantic and contextual overlap.",
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%T Extracting Fine-Grained Economic Events from Business News
%A Jacobs, Gilles
%A Hoste, Veronique
%Y El-Haj, Dr Mahmoud
%Y Athanasakou, Dr Vasiliki
%Y Ferradans, Dr Sira
%Y Salzedo, Dr Catherine
%Y Elhag, Dr Ans
%Y Bouamor, Dr Houda
%Y Litvak, Dr Marina
%Y Rayson, Dr Paul
%Y Giannakopoulos, Dr George
%Y Pittaras, Nikiforos
%S Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation
%D 2020
%8 December
%I COLING
%C Barcelona, Spain (Online)
%F jacobs-hoste-2020-extracting
%X Based on a recently developed fine-grained event extraction dataset for the economic domain, we present in a pilot study for supervised economic event extraction. We investigate how a state-of-the-art model for event extraction performs on the trigger and argument identification and classification. While F1-scores of above 50% are obtained on the task of trigger identification, we observe a large gap in performance compared to results on the benchmark ACE05 dataset. We show that single-token triggers do not provide sufficient discriminative information for a fine-grained event detection setup in a closed domain such as economics, since many classes have a large degree of lexico-semantic and contextual overlap.
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%P 235-245
Markdown (Informal)
[Extracting Fine-Grained Economic Events from Business News](https://aclanthology.org/2020.fnp-1.36) (Jacobs & Hoste, FNP 2020)
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